Old Man Death

Isn't it weird to think that in one hundred years, most every living creature on this earth will be dead.



Old Man Death is going to come knocking on your door one day.


My Grandpa Lee died from cancer.


My Grandma Nadine died from cancer.


A boy I know of committed suicide on train tracks. His sister went back ten years later and did the same.


I just read a news article of a little 10 month old baby who died from hyperthermia because they were left out in the hot car last summer while the foster parent was inside smoking marijuana. He only got 32 months in prison and even said he didn't deserve that. (Insane, I know.)


 My mother-in-law had five different babies go to Heaven before she got to meet them on Earth.


I have a baby, August Shalom, go to Heaven when his/her heart stopped beating when I was six weeks pregnant.


My precious friend, Becca, has two babies in Heaven. Jayden, whom she will find out if it was a boy or girl when she meets them there, and the other was Bryson David. He had been in her tummy for nearly 7 months.


Grant's cousin, a healthy man in his thirties died from melanoma.






Death comes in many different ways. Some people ask for it. Some people supposedly wanted it. Some people were innocent. Some new it was coming for several months or years. Some never saw it coming. Some never even took a breath outside the womb...



I don't write this to sadden you.


I write this to beg you to be prepared for what comes after death.


I know today's problems seem so big and they are so real.


I know, I have my own set of them.



Raylea has a new saying when she is trying to explain herself, she starts her sentence with "But, but..."


I will use that today...


Your problems are big. And so are mine...



BUT, BUT...



isn't it scary to know that if you die without Christ as your Lord and Savior that you will go to an eternal hell?



Isn't it assuring to know that if you die with Christ as your Lord and Savior that you will go to an eternal Heaven to live with Him forever and EVER?




Death is coming to you whether you want to think about it or not.



I know it may seem important to be liked, accepted and popular whether in real life or on your social media account.


I know it may seem you live week to week on a small income.


I know it may seem hard to lose weight when it holds you back in every area of your life.


I know it may seem hard to forgive someone who wronged you terribly.


I know it may seem hard to cry yourself to sleep each night.


I know it may seem hard because your health is failing.


I know it may seem hard that you have no true friends.



I don't ACTUALLY know what all of those things feel like, and I know they are all hard things, but what will be really hard, is if you die without God in your heart and life.



I don't care if I come across brass. I think I am probably not brass enough, honestly.


I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to say toughen up, because boy, I don't want anyone saying that to me when I'm having a hard time. But I DO want to remind those who are lost in their sins and without God that there is a much bigger problem coming your way when you die.


A life eternally separate from God.


That will be very hard, and very horrible.



I beg of you to not let that be you.


repent.


turn from your sins.


ask God for help.


He will give it to you.